ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service)

• When the Hurricane Cuts All Signals: How a Band of Radio Operators Built a “Never-Fading Lifeline”

  

  Jul 28, 2026

  Picture this: a Category 4 hurricane barrels through your town. The wind howls like a freight train. Trees snap like twigs. And then—silence. No cell service. No internet. No power. Your smartphone, that sleek little rectangle you rely on for everything, becomes a very expensive paperweight. For hundreds of thousands of people caught in hurricanes over the past few years, this wasn't a hypothetical. It was Tuesday. The Day the Signals Died Hurricane Helene, which tore through the U.S. Southeast in September 2024, was the second-deadliest storm in U.S. history. It left a trail of devastation from Florida to North Carolina, but perhaps its most insidious impact was on communication. In western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina, crisis responders faced a daunting challenge: no p...

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